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It’s First Thursday, What Are You Lookin’ At?

Gertrud and Otto Natzler at Museum of Contemporary Craft

It’s easy. We won’t have to stray far tonight to hit the high points of Portland’s First Thursday, when, as you know, the galleries stay open late with their August shows. Three spots in the DeSoto Building top our list for the night/month.

First up, we haven’t yet seen the show that opened at the Museum of Contemporary Craft on August 2, so first stop will be The Ceramics of Gertrud and Otto Natzler. She created these incredible forms, he developed a couple thousand experimental glazes and together they made 25,000 pieces, elevating vessel to fine art, and introducing modern European ceramics to America along the way through their LA studio and the classes they taught there.

“Alpine,” Robert Yoder, photo via Froelick Gallery

We’re also looking forward to seeing Robert Yoder’s Action Painting! at Froelick Gallery. Delicious vinyl and graphite collages from this Seattle artist aren’t paintings at all are they, but contain plenty of abstract action with a sometimes fractured, explosive surface, sometimes with twisted, falling flatforms. The Portland Art Museum just acquired a great piece of his entitled “Bank.” Now it’s your turn.

“New York Dolls”, Anton Perich at Augen

And you’ve seen many/most of these iconic photos before, pics of Edie Sedgwick, Joey and Debbie in bed, the Velvet Underground, but you’ll go see the new exhibition at Augen (716 NW Davis) anyway. Bande à part (band of outsiders) is an internationally traveling exhibition of work by photographers like Billy Name, Roberta Bayley, and Bobby Grossman (many more) who captured the New York underground scene in the 70′s and 80′s.

POSTED: August 7th, 2008 | AUTHOR: lisa | FILED UNDER: art | TAGS: art, ceramics, collage, exhibition, first thursday, galleries, museum of contemporary craft | No Comments »

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